Montague Regional High School Prom '09

The Prom was Friday night and Chandler looked beautiful!! She ended up wearing the long black dress, and she was glad she did. Her date Mitchell was a cutie! Blaine and I were the Drivers/ Photographers for the evening! We had a lot of fun!

The last time I saw Chandler this dressed up was almost 6 years ago at my wedding, she was a Jr. bridesmaid...

She is all grown up now!

Last Minute Facebook- ing... ha!

And what PEI Prom would be complete without at least one farm boy bringing his tractor....HA!

( this was the best pic I got....he was in a tux and a baseball hat, she was in a beautiful gown!!!!)

Nine Years ago( the year after I graduated) I went to a Prom at Montague Regional High School( I went to Charlottetown Rural High School)

Crazy how 9 years has flew by!

This week's edition is nursery/kid's rooms. My days of nursery's are gone, so I am showing my

girls bedroom. We are in the process or buying a new house, and are living in a 2 bedroom apt, until we move into the new one, so all 3 of my girls are in one room.

When we move into the new house my oldest Raven will have her own room, and River and Kiki baby will share a room. I have been on Rate my Space daily looking for decorating ideas for their new rooms, and I love these 2 similar rooms.

This is the wall color I am going to paint the walls in River & Keilee's room. They are going to use the bunk beds they have now( which are black), and I am going to paint their dresser and night table black. I also want to get a black chandelier ( something like the one in the first picture) for their light fixture.

I love the bedding, its from Target, and there are no Target stores in Canada, and they don't ship to Canada :(

I did find this bedding at Sears, its not as nice as the one from Target....but it will do.

For Raven's room, I have a striped bed-in-a-bag, that I am either going to put with brown walls, and bright colored curtains and decor, or pick 2 colors out of the comforter and do 2 walls of each color. She too will have black bedroom furniture.

I can't wait to get my hands on the new house!!! I have so many ideas...LOL!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Which Dress? aka Chandler needs your help!!

My baby sis Chandler came home from school today ecstatic...She was asked to the Grade 12 ( she's in gr 11) prom!! It's Friday...lol! My mom was like WHAT? ha! Anyway a quick trip to Charlottetown to find a dress, she found a really cute black one. She also bought some really nice jewelery and hair clips. When she got home she tried on the new dress for us and it looked very nice. She then remembered a dress that was in her closet, one that another of our sister 's ( Lexi) wore to a prom last year. Anyway, the 2nd dress was also very nice. Now she cannot choose which dress to wear.

This is the dress she bought today...

This is Lexi's dress from last year...

I personally like the long one, to me it seems more "prom-ish". What do you think?

Weeny roast with friends

We went over to our friend Melinda & Terry's the other night for a bon fire with the kids. It was fun! River slept thru the whole thing and Raven played DS with Bryson ( Melinda & Terry's oldest) Kiki baby was the only one of our girls that really enjoyed it.

The gamers in the back....kiki baby & Kalyn getting marshmallows ready to roast...

The nice roaring fire...

Kiki baby & Kalyn roasting their marshmallows...

The gang....Melinda & Terry on the left, and my hubby Blaine on the right

Kiki Baby & Kalyn....More marshmallows please!!!


Some of the pictures are not great as I am still getting used to my new camera....OH YA! I forgot to mention that my wonderful children and husband got me a new camera for Mother's day! It is the same camera that I had before only its the newest addition...more features, better zoom, and higher pixels. I LOVE IT!!!

We also went yesterday and got this fire pit from walmart it was only $50!! I wanted to get one so we could have a backyard weeny roast whenever we wanted, the kids just love it so much!

Our day at the beach!

I absolutly LOVE living by the beach! It's so nice to walk out my door and in less than 2 minutes we can be in the water! The kids love going and playing in the sand. It is so relaxing to take them down and watch them play in the water and in the sand.

We have had really nice weather this past week, so we spent a few days there.

Raven playing in the sand...

Raven & River strikin' a pose...

Kiki baby & Me....

Kiki Baby playing in the water...

River playing in the sand...

Raven playing in the water...

Happy Mother's Day!

Before I was a Mom, I never tripped over toys or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.
Before I was a Mom, I had never been puked on. Pooped on. Chewed on. Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
I slept all night.
Before I was a Mom, I never held down a screaming child so doctors could do tests. Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.
Before I was a Mom, I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put her down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.
Before I was a Mom, I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.
Before I was a Mom, I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache, the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom .

I pimped my blog!!!

As I was looking at all the blogs that took part in Friday's "Show us where you live" extravaganza, I couldn't help but notice all the awesome blogs out there, and all the great designs. And mine was feeling (and looking) rather dull. For some reason, I thought that all the ladies with really cute and nice blogs paid a web designer to make their blogs look like that, and because I am new to the blog world, I didn't want to put money into something I may or may not give up in a months time. But then I discovered the little "cutest blog on the block.com" in the top left corner of a few....so naturally I clicked on it and... Voila! everything I need to make my blog pretty! HA! How do you like it? I wanted one that I hadn't seen too much or at all, and I LOVE purple, and I LOVE Daisy's! So this is so me now!!! I really like it!

I have also discovered Picnik.com and I have to say that I LOVE that too...ha! I tried Adobe photoshop, and others like it, but they are all to complicated for me. Picnik, is super simple. Here are a few pics that I have "picniked" lol.

Aren't they great?! I love photography, and usually I take 50 pictures a day, but a couple months ago, I made the mistake of forgetting my camera case in our vehicle when we were staying at a hotel in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The back window of our Santa Fe was smashed out and the thieves took my camera case (which had both my digital camera and my video camera). Because house insurance covers items stolen from vehicles, and we were in the process of moving and didn't have house insurance, we were left up crappy creek without a paddle. And because money definitely doesn't grow on trees for us, I have yet to get a new camera. I feel completely lost. I have been using my sister Chandler's camera, which in comparison to the camera I had fails miserably :( but it still is a camera and I am thankful that she doesn't use it a whole lot and that she has let me have it for a few weeks now. Thanks Channie!

Friday Already?

This week has flew by for me. Probably because I was sick and slept most of the week, and 2 out of 3 of my girls were sick and we all snuggled in my bed and watched movies on my laptop, and they slept alot this week too. Hopefully, we will all be on the mend now and this weekend will be a good one.

So it being Friday, it is week 2 of "Show us where you live Friday" I love seeing how other people decorate and getting ideas from them. And with us soon to be moving into the new house, I will have a ton of ideas for decorating it.



I am going to do the same thing I did last Friday and post pictures from the apartment we live in now, and also the living room in the house we are moving into. So here they are, I hope you enjoy! Please leave me a comment and let me know you stopped by.

This is what it looked like when we first moved in...

And with a some paint and a little bit of elbow grease, here it is after.

This is looking in from the kitchen.

The patio doors look out to the back yard

These lights I hated and wanted to take down...but I spray painted them instead...

This is the house we are moving into...

the children in these pictures are mine...so no need to worry that I am posting pics of some other persons kids with out consent :)

The arch way on the left leads out to the main entrance.

The floors are original hardwood, that the previous owners ( who happen to be my parents) just had refinished.

The house we are in the process of buying and moving into has a living room and a family room. But the family room right now is being used as a storage room. We plan to use the living room as a formal living room and then use the family room as well, a family room...lol. The furniture we have in the apartment living room will be the furniture we put in the family room of the new house. I am hoping to buy all new living room furniture, as this is the first "formal" living room I have ever had.

The house that we are buying is from my parents, who are building a house just up the road. They are planning on having their new house finished in early November, so it won't be until after that, that we can move into our "new" house.

Thanks for stopping by! I can't wait to see all the other living rooms everyone posts!

First day at the beach!

Okay, we didn't go swimming, but we took the kids down to the beach for a bonfire and so they could play in the sand. Our new friends Melinda & Terry Sherrard and their youngest daughter Peyton (2.5) came over to join in on the weeny roast! It was alot of fun!

This is Peyton, playing in the sand

I realized that I got pictures of everyone except one of Blaine and I,

so I took this one today :)

River picking up shells...

Raven building a sand castle...

Kiki baby posing for the camera....

Melinda enjoying a weeny...

And this one is just too cute....hehe

This is our beach, I plan on spending alot of time here with the kids this summer :)

Melinda, getting sticks to roast weeny's on...

Blaine looking for firewood...

Terry building the fire....

I can't wait to actually take the girls swimming at our beach!